Big Gains for Fedora in Web Hosting

1sockchuck writes "Fedora is the fastest-growing Linux distribution for web sites, according to new data from Netcraft on the popularity of Linux distros. Red Hat continues to be the most widely-used distro, running twice as many sites as Debian. 'Red Hat seems to have the best of both worlds at the moment: market-leading status for Red Hat Linux, plus the fastest-growing community distribution in Fedora,' the analysis notes."

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DistroWatch sites Ubuntu as #1 rising distro

[Khopesh]

Netcraft doesn't look at Ubuntu's stats. It's been rising like crazy over the past year, poking its head up to the top of DistroWatch's average hits/day list for the last 3 months and last month. As to the last 6 months (netcraft looks at this period), Mandrake seems to have the top seat.

Looking at percentage increase, Ubuntu probably beats the pants off of Fedora, rising from an average hits/day of 300 in 2004 to an average hits/day of 1916 in the past month; that's a 638% increase. Using the same math for Fedora, we see a LOSS of 8%.

Of course, this is just a measure of people's interest in DistroWatch's stats on distros ... far from complete. However, it shows that increase in Ubuntu is massive. Perhaps bigger than Fedora. Then again, both are very young and very successful; a massive percentage increase should be expected.

Re:DistroWatch sites Ubuntu as #1 rising distro

[Otter]

In related news, Ubuntu users have surged past the Gentoo community to become the #1 source of annoying, off-topic distro cheerleading. Whether it's the parent responding to statistics for webserver hosting with DistroWatch numbers or this guy responding to a question about JES vs. OES with "[Ubuntu] is the first linux distro that I've recommended to my mom!", they can be counted on for their two cents regardless of the topic.

Once again, you see what it looks like when a new distro really starts to get some traction. That's why I don't believe that there are serious numbers of Lindows, TurboLinux or Xandros users out there -- if there were, we'd hear from them.